With a shout out to Dancinglights, and Inside Urban Green for the idea, I have been hard at work making planters out of repurposed soda and gatorade bottles, and takeout containers.
I’ve been asked for pictures, so here they are, using a gatorade bottle as an example:
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Planters! From repurposed plastic bottles
May 9th, 2009 No Comments
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Lime Pickle!
February 4th, 2009 No Comments
After Comrade Don introduced me to Hot Lime Pickle (and other Indian relishes) last summer, I decided to see what I could learn about making my own.
Turns out, it’s easy.
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New Fermentings
January 4th, 2009 No Comments
Kombucha
The cranberry kombucha is all gone. It was lovely, but it tasted so unlike tea that I tended to foget there was caffeine in it. I think next time I will not use black tea for this.
Meanwhile, I have a new 3-quart batch of rose hips kombucha that’s looking close to ready!
Below the cut, Weinkraut [...]
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Kombucha Made of Win
December 16th, 2008 No Comments
I just made an awesomely win-ful, eye-poppingly tart Cranberry Kombucha. You should too. This is how it goes:
Ingredients:
1 bottle store-bought Kombucha, any flavor (buy it at whole foods or your local health-food store).
1 cup sugar (cane, beet, corn, maple, whatever)
4 tea bags (your choice) or equivalent amount of loose tea
1 gallon-size crock pot (or scale [...]
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Sandwich Made of Win
December 16th, 2008 No Comments
Tonight’s problem: Have bits in the kitchen; don’t want to cook anything complicated; don’t want to go to store.
Solution: Put bits on sandwich. Details below, along with suggested substitutions.
Bits:
1 Uglyripe Tomato
1/2 White Onion
1 bucket mixed weird salad greens
1/2 tub baby bellas
1 link Tofurkey brand Italian Sausage substitute. Consider any German, Italian, or Polish sausage (cooked), [...]
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I can has garden!
April 27th, 2008 No Comments
Yesterday I took possession of a Cornell garden plot out at Plantations, just south of the Dyce bee labs. I got some Brussels Sprout seedlings from Home Depot and put them straight in the ground, and staked out my plot with dead limbs from the forest that other gardeners have used in the past (I [...]
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